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Whaling dispute has been settled and operations will resume in a few weeks.

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Killer. boat crewmen win hike,
whaling operations to proceed

Whaler boat and station crewmen have voted to accept a recommendation of concilia-
tion officers, Don Tysoe of the federal department of labor and Reg. Clements of the pro-
vincial department to settle the whaling dispute. British Columbia Packers Ltd., the com-
pany which runs the operation, have also accepted. Therefore, the whaling operation will

proceed this year.

Basis of the agreements is
for a two year term, from
April 1, 1959, to March 31,
1961. Killer boat crewmen will
receive a wage increase of $20
per month from April 1 this

“year and an additional $15 per

month effective April 1, 1960.
The recommendation includes
an increase. in the whale
bonus of 50 cents per whale
for all whales taken over 674,
and improvements in statutory

holiday pay and_ subsistence.

allowance conditions.

The company last fall in-
formed. boat crewmen from
Newfoundland they would
have to pay their own fares
from and to Newfoundland in-
stead of as previously where

-the company paid fares from

Newfoundland. The recom-

-mendation provides that the

company will continue the
practice of one way transpor-
tation’ fare for any crew mem-
ber hired outside the prov-
ine. :

With respect to station
crewmen, rates remain the
same as in 1958 for 1959 with
an increase of 4 percent April
1, 1960. The settlement also
provides for a minimum
monthly guarantee which

states that the men must re-~

céive as a minimum the
equivalent of their straight

time earnings for the full

A meeting has been ar-

Discussions in Mose |
helped clear the air

__ Prime Minister Macmillan of -Britain did not take ®
advice of his U.S. friends, and break off his Moscow tlk
He stayed to sign a‘ communique which accepted the ee
of “early negotiations” to save “peace and security in Europ
and proposed study of a partial pullback of armed fore

Europe. .

The communique added that
Prime Minister Macmillan and
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
“reviewed the course of the
work of the Geneva confer-
ence on the discontinuence of

nuclear weapon tests and re-

solved to continue their ef-
forts to reach a satisfactory

~ conclusion.”

On the question of mainten-
ance and consolidation of
peace and security in Europe,
the two. states agreed “that
further study could usefully
be made of the possibilities of
increasing security by some
method of limitation of forces
and weapons, both conyen-
tional _ and nuclear, in an
agreed area of Europe, coupl-
ed with an appropriate sys-
tem of inspection.”

Agreement was made also to
further discussions on trade
and cultural exchange.

The communique thus re.
flected - the heavy pressure
Prime Minister Macmillan was
under from back home, but
it was also clear that the Brit-
ish Tories have a very long
way to go before breaking
with the hard cold war line

of the US. state department.

and Chancellor Adenauer.
No mention was made of
two proposals put forward

e
propesed a soe a
friendship and non-aget
with Britain. in arr
This speech created a: !
uproar in the veo
beeause it put the 2M
Tory prime minister sau@®
on the spot.. Macmillan h¥
self is publicly on record #

but as the London Daily We :
er caustically remarked: ‘The
West makes a proposal. &
long as the Russians disaé
with it, it is a fine Prope
something that is .goime
solve all the world’s problens
But let the Russia®
agree with it and. it is ™
mediately denounced 28
devilish plot.” vi stieh
Although making clear
it favors a summit. meeting:
has replied. to the Wi
notes on Germany. with spe
fic proposals for a confereél
in-April of the foreign minh
sters of Britain, France the
United States, Czechoslo
Poland and the USSR,
The note makes clear tht
such a conference must! i
be used to obstruct: action a)
a solution to the problems ©
Germany and Berlin;; that !
must get down: to. business 0
clear-cut Soviet propositi
for a peace treaty with Doe

month. This figure will be ar-
rived at by multiplying the

hourly rate by 192.

ranged between the parties
for the purpose of drafting the
new agreements.

by Premier Khrushchey. on Germanys and: the converst
February 24 when he called of Berlin into. a demilitarize
for a summit meeting and free city. Una a

i : tose

END THE COLD WAR FOREVER!

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE BUREAU OF THE WORLD COUNCIL OF PEACE,

N EVERY PART ofthe world the people detest the cold

war and wish to see it ended. This feeling is so strong

today that it is one , with which every government must
reckon. 5 j

The refusals to ban nuclear weapons, and even to agree
to end nuclear weapon tests, the spread of nuclear bases
throughout the world, expose humanity to incalculable risks.

Natural resources, man-power and scientific progress
are being diverted to preparing war. The burden of arma-
ments reduces the living standards of the peoples and hind-
ers economic development. The obstacles to the free flow of
trade injure the prosperity of all.

The sovereignty of states and the rights of peoples to
determine their own destiny are violated by repeated inter-
ference in their internal affairs and jeopardized by military
pacts and treaties, old and new, by bases and by stationing
of foreign troops on their soil. : 3

The policy of the cold war is used in an attempt to
justify colonial domination, and the right of peoples to in-
dependence is denied by force and even, in some areas by
war.

Today, in the heart of Europe insecurity and tension
have grown worse. The refusal to set up in Europe a zone
of security or disengagement, and to negotiate a peace treaty
with Germany, the equipment of Western Germany with
nuclear weapons, have intensified the cold war and roused

immediate new dangers.

The time is long overdue to press forward with negotia-
tions and to hold a conference at top level to find solutions.
to the questions at issue. iV

Today the public will for change has grown so strong.
that it can put an end to the cold war forever. 494
The World Peace Movement itself is now much stronger.
Great new movements have appeared in some parts of the
world; the close relationships we have established wit them
and our common efforts have given a new impetus to the
struggle for peace. ? ail
In other parts of the world political, trade union, paci- |
fist and religious organizations and movements have come |
newly into existence, or have developed new peace activity.
backed by the public opinion of their own countries: We |
are sure that these bodies and movements all desire the end |
of the cold war, even if they differ from ourselves about
the responsibility and origin of present difficulties. al
We are resolved to support unreservedly the efforts of
all those who act, in whatever way, for peace, for we are |
convinced that the salvation of mankind requires the effort. |
of all toward this common aim. : ~—
May the forces of peace create a new spirit of mutual
understanding! May they, all together, open the road that .
the government will have to follow a

MOSCOW, FEBRUARY 25, 138 |

_March 13, 1959 — PACIFIC. TRIBUNE—PAGE !